Strength in weakness: Fragile DNA regions key to vertebrate evolution

DNA regions susceptible to breakage and loss are genetic hot spots for important evolutionary changes, according to Stanford study. The findings may lead to new understanding of human evolution.More...

Physicians Experience Highest Suicide Rate of Any Profession

NEW YORK — With one completed suicide every day, US physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession. In addition, the number of physician suicides is more than twice that of the general population, new research shows.More...

Public Health Work-Life Fit: Is It Possible To Have Both a Global Health Career and a Family?

Two driven MPH students fell in love. Then their work threatened to put 8,000 miles between them.More...

According to new data released by CDC, so far during the 2018-2019 season between about 6 and 7 million people have been sick with flu, up to half of those people have sought medical care for their illness, and between 69,000 and 84,000 people have been hospitalized from flu.More...

Be Prepared to Stay Safe and Healthy in Winter

Winter storms and cold temperatures can be dangerous. Stay safe and healthy by planning ahead. Prepare your home and cars. Prepare for power outages and outdoor activity. Check on older adults.More...

New Study Finds Higher than Expected Number of Suicide Deaths among U.S. Veterinarians

Female veterinarians at particularly high suicide riskVeterinarians in the U.S. are at an increased risk of suicide, a trend that has spanned more than three decades, according to a new CDC study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA).More...

How can we make health data a global public good?

New technologies are emerging and converging to create a new infrastructure that acts as a central nervous system of the global community, allowing data to be shared instantly across regions, borders, and oceans.More...

Antimicrobial Resistance Knows No Boundaries

European Union officials and global health bodies have called for help for poorer countries as growing resistance to antibiotics threatens to become a ‘global health tragedy’ and jeopardises Sustainable Development Goals in some parts of the world.More...

PHOENIX – Expect people who are living on the streets to be exhausted from carrying around everything they own, all the time, Bonnie Ervin told her volunteer trainees.More...

Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Medicine

Washington University researchers are working to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems for health care, which have the potential to transform the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, helping to ensure that patients get the right treatment at the right time.More...

Rapid Cure Approved for Sleeping Sickness, a Horrific Illness

Parasites transmitted by tsetse flies travel to the brain, causing paranoia, fury and death. Until now, killing them required hospitalization and harsh drugs.More...

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers

Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.More...

World Press Freedom Day 2018

The theme for the 25th celebration of World Press Freedom Day is “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law”.More...

Junior hospital doctors

“Junior” doctors: does terminology matter?David Matthews from the Oxford Health Alliance suggests abandoning the term “junior” to address the low morale of UK “trainee” hospital doctors, aged between 23 and 40 years.More...

90–90–90 Treatment for All

An ambitious treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemicBy 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status ...More...

Incident Management System

To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.More...

MARIJUANA: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization

California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreational use, or both ...
What do we know about the health impacts of marijuana, and what do we still need to learn?

An Economy for the 99%

It´s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged fewNew estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers.

European Virus Archive goes global

EVAg is a network of laboratories including 16 EU member state institutions and 9 non-EU institutions, that represent an extensive range of virological disciplines. EVAg establishes close relationships and collaborations with international organizations involved in public health (WHO, OIE and FAO).More...

Establishing a Global Vaccine-Development Fund

As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues, albeit at a much lower level than it reached in the spring, we still lack a vaccine that has been shown to be safe and effective.

Much attention has appropriately been directed at major disease targets such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis, and malaria, for which organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust are providing considerable financial support. Similar attention has been devoted to the provision of currently licensed pediatric vaccines, which is supported by GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization).More...

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Public Health Genomics

The Human Genome Project, the development of new genetic tests, DNA chip technologies
and related technologies all offer new opportunities for the promotion of population health
which will lead to fundamental challenges in the healthcare delivery systems. Medicine and
public health are given ...More (PDF)...

How to Become a Skilful Public Health Nutritionist?

by Margetts, Barrie

Public Health Nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health through nutrition and
the primary prevention of diet and physical activity related illness in the population. The
aim is to keep populations well for longer. The purpose is to identify and...More (PDF)...

My Extraordinary Erasmus Exchange in Paris

As a person who has always been fond of the idea of studying abroad and experiencing different educational systems I decided to apply for an Erasmus exchange during my 5th year at the medical school in Vienna, Austria.More...More (PDF)...

Junior Doctor for a Year in Rwanda

"Contrary to expectations, it was not specific sad cases that upset me, but the sheer number of these. It was only when I was back in Germany that I realised just how much I still had to process in my mind."More (PDF)...

Experienca Report - Sydney

During my final year at university medical school I completed a two months elective in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
The Westmead Hospital is a teaching hospital in the west of the city of Sydney, about a 45 minutes train ride from central station.More...More (PDF)...